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OAR.

No. 533,810. Patented Feb. 5, 1895.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rmcn CHARLIE O. I-IODGES AND GEORGE H. GARDNER, OE BA'IAVIA, NEW YORK.

OAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 533,810, dated February 5, 1 895. 7

Application filed April 21, 1894. serial No. 508,486. on model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLIE O. HODGES and Gnonen H. GARDNER, of Batavia, in the county of Genesee and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Oar, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to oars, especially to an improvement in bow facing cars, and it has for its object to provide an car of exceedingly simple and durable construction, capable of being used with the operator facing the bow, said car being also capable of being feathered or moved in any direction incident to an ordinary car.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved oar. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken practically on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 8 is a transverse section taken essentiallyon the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

In carrying out the invention posts 10 are erected upon the gunwale A of the boat, and in sockets 13 located at the top of the said posts a rocking frame 13 is supported and journaled. This frame comprises a body bar 11, the ends of which are journaled in the said sockets 13, the bar being provided with a longitudinal slot 12 between its ends. The bar is further provided with a cross head 14: at its forward end, which cross head at each of its ends is provided with a socket 15, said sockets preferably forming extensions of its upper face, as shown in Fig. 3.

In connection with the rocking frame, arms 16 and 17 are employed, the arm 16 being adapted to carry the handle 0 of an car, while the arm 17, supports the body and blade D of the oar. Each arm 16 and 17, is provided with a stud 18 projected upwardly from it between its ends, and is further provided with a horizontal extension 19 at the inner end, and the said extensions 19 are fitted with studs 20, which studs are made to enter the sockets 15 of the cross head of the rocking frame. By this means the arms 16 and 17 are pivotally connected with the rocking frame.

The handle (3 of the oar is provided with a rod 21 firmly secured thereto, which rod extends through and turns in the arm 16, the two arms 16 and 17 being tubular. A spacing collar 22, is secured upon the rod 21 between the outer end of the handle and the inner end of the said arm 16, being prefer ably held thereon by means of a set screw. A like rod 23, is secured to the body portion D of the oar, and is passed through and held to turn in the arm 17, the rod 23 being provided with a spacing collar 24:. Each rod 21 and 23, where itpasses through the end of the tubular arms 16 and 17, is provided with a head, and this head is located under the extensions 19 of the said arms; and the heads of both rods are connected one with each end of a spacing block 25, the connection between the rods 21 and 23 and the said spacing block being a swivel connection, or one effected by a ball and socket, whereby, when the handle is turned the body and blade of the car will be turned also, and by reason of the connection of the tubular arms 16 and 17 with the rocking frame, the handle and body of the oar may be moved upward or downward in an easy manner, and in a manner common to rowing.

The handle and body sections of the car are made to move laterally inthe same direction through the medium of links 26, which links are pivotal] y connected and are provided with a friction roller 27 at that point, the said roller being adapted to travel in the slot 12 of the rocking frame, the links being bifurcated to receive the bar 11 of the frame containing said slot.

The forward end of each link is provided with a socket 28, and said sockets receive the studs 18, projected upward from the tubular arms 16 and 17. Thus it will be observed that an oar constructed as above set forth, while being manipulated by an operator facing the bow of the boat, may be feathered, raised and lowered, and be given the same stroke that would be given to an ordinary car, the operator'facing the stern.

The oar is exceedingly simple, durable and economic in its construction, and may be ex- 'peditionsly and conveniently applied tea. boat. 7 r v,

VWe desire it to be understood that all the hearings in the improved oar may be, and preferably are ball bearings Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent- I 1.111 a bow facing oar, the combination, with a rocking frame adapted for attachment to the gunwale of a boat, of an oar compris ing: a handle section and a combined body and blade section; tubulararm's pivotally connected with the rocking; frame and connected together for simultaneous operation, rods attachedtothe two sections of the car and passed loosely thronghsaid tnbulararms,

and a connecting block nnitin-gjthe-opposing ends of the said rods, the connection being substantially nniversal, as and for the pur-:

pose set forth.

' 2. In a bow facing; ear, the combination, with a rocking frameadapted for attachment to the gnnwale of a boat and tubular arms pivotally connected with, the said frame and rocking therewith, of an ear comprising; a handle section and a 'combined bodyand blade sectiomerodsecured to each section of the ear, onerod being pressed loosely through each tubular arm,- the rods being 7 coupled together at their -opposingfends,1-andlinks pivotally connected one with each tubular arninthe said linkshein g pivotally connected at their opposite ends and having guided movement upon the rocking frame, whereby when the handle section istnrned the body section of the car will be turned also;- and whereby both sections of the ear will be compelled to move simnltaneonslyin the same direction, asspecified. V '3. Inca bow facing oar, the combination;

with sockets adapted for attachment to the onnnnin o. nonens enonon n. GARDNER.

Witnesses:

G. W. Hncems, 0. A.-SNELL; 

